Wednesday 22 July 2015

Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Blithfield
5x Sanderling in Blithe Bay at 14:00, also 49x Dunlin, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 3x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 23x LR Plover, 12x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, Kingfisher, 2x Goosander, Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret (SE HF)

Doxey Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 4x LR Plover, 5x Common Tern, Little Egret, c140 House Martin, 17x Sand Martin, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Gadwall, pair Shelduck (RT)
Also Greenshank, Peregrine, Water Rail (DSc)

Audley
Hobby, 6x Yellowhammer, 4x Tree Sparrow, 2x Lesser Whitethroat south of the village (PAD)

Croxden Quarry
Juvenile Black-necked Grebe still on the old lagoon this evening

Yoxall
Sandwich Tern flew NNE at 14.30 (KJo)